I was thinking about war-profiteering and the private companies that lobby for endless wars lately (think Du Pont, Rockeller, Halliburton, etc). It causes untold damage to humanity. It occurred to me that this sort of thing is absent in the Chinese economy as far as I'm aware. Yay capitalism?
Endless wars pre-date capitalism. Western defense companies are hardly capitalistic. They are as "planned economy" as it gets. China is wildly capitalistic in many aspects.
Maybe Chinese companies don't lobby for war because they are so bad at war that they can't see a route to profitability?
It's a valid question. Presumably a given company will do what is most profitable for it whether that's lobbying for peace or war. It's worthwhile to try to understand what the differences in either circumstances or policy might be that led to an alternate outcome.
